3. The first restaurant was located in the city's South Side, on a street now known as Bill Miller Lane

Bill Miller #01 stands near the five-point intersection of Goliad Road, Clark Avenue and Bill Miller Lane, previously called Offer Street. When the city switched the street names in 1994, the Highland Hills Neighborhood Association held a parade and ribbon cutting (pictured above), according to archives. At that time, the chain owned 49 eateries in South Texas.

When the Miller patriarch semi-retired in May 1966, Balous "decided to make Bill Miller Bar-B-Q his career rather than pursuing his plans for teaching school," the chain's website states. Balous (pictured here in 1984) continued to run the business with his brothers John and Douglas, and his late brother-in-law Louis Vance.

Bexar County holds over 50 Bill Miller restaurants. Outside the San Antonio area, the chain is present in Seguin, New Braunfels, Austin and Corpus Christi.

5. Bill Miller reigns in San Antonio

Bexar County holds over 50 Bill Miller restaurants. Outside the San Antonio area, the chain is present in Seguin, New Braunfels, Austin and Corpus Christi.

Photo: ROBERT MCLEROY, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

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6. In fact, all food is made in the Alamo City

Located in downtown San Antonio is the chain's 125,000-square-foot commissary, which distributes meats, pies and side dishes to restaurants in and around San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin. Food is distributed every day except on Christmas.

He told the Express-News in 2015 that lunch should average $10, but that maxim’s meant slimmer profits with droughts and Midwestern disease outbreaks. “I’ve raised prices. I’ve had to, to stay in business,” he said. “But I’ve had to do it very carefully. San Antonio’s not a high-income town. And I’d rather make a lot less money than lose business."

The Bill Miller Buddies met for 12 years to celebrate birthdays until disbanding in 2013. “We're the only ones who were allowed to meet at Bill Miller's,” former club president Ginger Treanor told the Express-News in a previous report. “Others groups tried, but we were the only ones. We had their name, after all."

Balous Miller bought the vacant Fiesta Plaza Mall for $1 million. He donated the property to the University of Texas at San Antonio to build a downtown campus, hoping the school could revive a depressed pocket of the city. “The only answer to poverty is education," he said in a previous report.

The company now operates five Laguna Madre seafood restaurants around town. “That’s not my generation, it’s your generation,” he previously told the Express-News. “It’s hard, but I’ve got to change. I’ve got to bend.”

Bill Miller Bar-B-Q: Free meals to law enforcement Friday to show 'appreciation' after Dallas ambush

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Presumably in response to the Thursday night massacre in Dallas, in which a gunman killed five police officers and wounded several others during a protest, Bill Miller Bar-B-Q is showing their support of local authorities by offering free meals.

The barbecue chain posted a tweet on Friday morning explaining "all law enforcement personnel" dressed in uniform or with proper identification would receive their food free of charge throughout the day.